BillyBob_TX | 14 points
UP govt directs use of drug Ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19 patients, to replace HCQUpdated: Aug 7, 2020, 11:00 AM IST
The Uttar Pradesh government has approved the use of ivermectin tablet for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19.
This drug will be used as a replacement for hydroxychloroquine.
The drug will also be given to frontline health workers in COVID-19 hospitals, apart from people infected with COVID-19 and their contacts.
Ivermectin tablets are being used in many hospitals of the country including AIIMS, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Max Hospital in Delhi.
Further, the health department has instructed people who came into contact with COVID-19 positive patient to take this drug in order to protect them form possible infection.
Invermectin, a tablet used to treat parisitic infections like head lice, scabies, river blindness, strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, showed effective results on COVID-19 in various studies conducted by various researchers.
In one such research study conducted by Xi’an Jiaotong University involving 116 patients who tested positive for COVID-19, the combination of Ivermectin with Doxycycline was seen to be a far superior teatment regime than Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin therapy in mild to moderate COVID-19 infections.
It is to be noted that hydroxychloroquine tablets were only being taken by frontline health care workers. The ICMR had recommended the use of the anti-malaria drug as a preventive treatment against COVID-19 for asymptomatic healthcare workers in non-COVID hospitals, frontline personnel deployed in containment zones, and paramilitary/police officials involved in coronavirus infection-related activities.
do we have accurate stats out of there to watch what happens over in Bangladesh over the next month?
I am skeptical because the trial says this was SINGLE DOSE ivermectin at 200mcg/KG which is too few days in my personal experience
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[-] TrumpLyftAlles | 2 points
Here is another article about the same thing, with more information about taking ivermectin for prophylaxis -- avoiding catching the virus.
The state's Additional Chief Secretary (Health and Medicine) Amit Mohan Prasad has ordered all the chief medical officers of the state that the drug ivermectin can be used for prevention as well as treatment of corona. Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow, Dr. RP Singh said that “There were many problems with HCQ. Therefore, now we have been instructed to use ivermectin according to the prescribed dose.
Let us know that in a meeting of medical experts chaired by the Director General of Medicine and Health, the decision and protocol of medicine was finalized. Doxycyclin has been prescribed with ivermectin for corona patients. For health workers, ivermectin doses have been suggested on the first, seventh and 30th days and then once a month.
[-] TrumpLyftAlles | 1 points
And yet another article, from 2020-08-08:
Ivermectin to be used for Covid treatment in UP, to replace hydroxychloroquine
NOIDA/GHAZIABAD: Uttar Pradesh government has approved the use of Ivermectin as a new medication for the treatment and prevention of Covid-19. The drug will replace hydroxychloroquine.
Health department officials involved with Covid-19 management said that Ivermectin is already being given to frontline health workers. The additional chief secretary of the health department on Thursday directed all chief medical officers to start giving doses of the medicine to individuals being treated for Covid-19, their primary contacts as well as to health workers deputed in Covid care centres.
Defining the prophylaxis procedure, usage of Ivermectin has been approved as a preventive healthcare method. Those who test positive, have to be administered 12 mg Ivermectin daily for three days after dinner.
Prophylaxis!
Meanwhile, those who come in contact with Covid patients have been advised to take 12 mg dose of the drug on the first and the seventh days. The health workers need to take the drug on the first day, seventh day and the thirtieth day in a month.
Additional chief medical officer of Gautam Budh Nagar district, Nepal Singh, said: “We have been giving the said medicines to patients and health workers for months. Now on, primary contacts will be asked to take the required dose.”
The health department has clarified that the drug should not be administered to children under the age of two years as well as to pregnant women.
Dr Navneet Kumar Verma, treasurer IMA (Ghaziabad chapter), while explaining the difference between the two drugs, said that hydroxychloroquine is essentially an anti-malarial drug while Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug — which has been found to be more effective in the treatment of Covid -19.
“It is not that the Ivermectin was not being used but, after results were found to be encouraging, the UP government has approved its use. It will replace hydroxychloroquine. Having said that, it is worth mentioning that we are still in a stage of hit-and-trial,” said Dr Navneet Kumar Verma, treasurer IMA, Ghaziabad.
“Ivermectin blocks entry of virus at multiple points thereby acting as an inhibitor for covid-19 causative virus (SARS-CoV-2), it has little side effect as compared to hydroxychloroquine which has found to be causing cardiac-related ailments in the long run,” said Verma.
The Ghaziabad DM, meanwhile, said use of Ivermectin is prevalent in the district and after state government’s direction hydroxychloroquine will be replaced. “We have enough stock of Ivermectin in the district” informed Ajay Shankar Pandey, district magistrate, Ghaziabad.
[-] covid-19_throwaway | 4 points | Aug 07 2020 15:23:35
With a population of ~200M, this is going to be hard for the rest of the world to ignore.
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